… to practise the full teaching of the Church as enshrined in the Book of Common Prayer
If you have read this blog before you know the answer. Tbh, my advice, for me, is do not travel. Being alone at home is my supreme goal. But maybe I travel in my mind via good books?
So my travel advice: do not stop reading! Allow you mind to wonder off the beaten track. Read everything! Allow everything you read to speak to you. Every piece of writing is a personal experience. It is written just for me.
What was your first ever videogame?
Absolutely no good at playing video games. I had an Apple IIe and a couple games in the early 80s. The first game I remember seriously playing is Ms Pac-Man. Much fun!!!
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Do you set personal goals for yourself?
I have learned that while I set goals, I very rarely keep the process all the way to the end. So the answer is, “yes but“!
Periods make me very creative and very self-doubting. So many started projects, many great ideas, but rarely do the work. I am an ideas person!!! Creative ideas to problems. But not the work to bring it to fruition.
Anyway …
What do you think is the future of AI?
Terminator!? Skynet?! Maybe the future?! Maybe the end of humanity?! Another form of railway hysteria?!
I only just started using it. Very helpful to put ideas into something useable. In the end, can it replace human beings? I really do not know. My hope is that humanity will adapt.
But, tbh, I do not see AI being a part of my life. I try to limit my technology time. I try to find out things myself – the journey and all that. The future is not yet so I will wait!!!
Anyway …
I like dystopian fiction so, I guess, this one is for me. I am currently reading Children of Men by P. D. James – life after fertility. The main character is almost me. I really enjoyed Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale series – I really like the style. But, maybe the world is a little too real. And a Brave New World is an all time favourite.
So I am going for a classic – the Orwellian world of Airstrip One. It is such a dystopian classic but, maybe, a little close to the real world. Absolute worst? Maybe not! But one that well thought out by the author. I like the idea of newspeak. The Two Minutes Hate reads a little like some online content. (BTW: the movie is not as good as the book, methinks!)
Anyway …
Duty becomes duty by being referred to God, but in the duty itself I do not enter into relation to God.
Fear and Trembling (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy), 59
Really I try to be positive – to not be a “stone thrower”. But …
The challenge has always been that the Baptismal Covenant is so central to the whole structure and theology of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer that people don’t want to mess with it willy-nilly. At the same time, the Church has come to the recognition that ministry and mission is not all about social justice. It includes justice for creation as well, and creation care.
Baptismal promises in US Episcopal Church lengthen for creation
No! Just no!!!! That is all I am going to say.
Question Do you joyfully receive the Christian Faith, as revealed in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments?
BCP 2019
Answer I do.
Again, no! Just no.
What’s the most underrated movie you’ve ever watched?
And one I have watched multiple times, Beverly Hills Cop. I like the first one the best but the rest are good to watch. It is so funny! Lots of action and nothing too major to stress me out.
Tbh, I rewatch movies because it is much less stressful – I know what is coming. So this one is perfect!
I am not trying to be dramatic or “feeling fishing” but (raw) … survive. So not something I have done but something I have not done. I never thought I would make it this far. I assumed I would have ended it by now. Too much pain! But I am still here. Maybe not happy or anything, always a little sad and anxious, but still here!? Another day!
Sometimes I think that God knows and He gives me another day anyway. Not in judgement but in love. He knows!
